Episode 180! Wow….

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Notes: <> for psychic communication, italics for pokemon speech, and ** for thoughts.

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Episode 180: A twisted bit of truth

A few hours had passed, and Arcanine was getting tired. Ash noticed and called the flame hound back. “You did well, Arcanine, don’t worry.” Arcanine vanished in a swirl of sparkly energy and Ash picked up another card.

“Ponyta, guess you’re up then. Let’s go.” Ash said, as he nudged the fire horse into a gallop.

Ponyta nodded as they trotted towards the ever-present gloom and doom awaiting them at Moline’s castle.

“If that wizard has done anything to Pika-chan, I’ll…” Ash made grasping motions with his hands, and then stopped as he realized something.

“Got it!” He pointed his staff forwards. “Magic to cards, cards to key!”

A hazy white light shot out and pointed at the sky, before reversing direction and changing to where Pika-chan was held.

Charlotte sighed in relief. * I thought he would have figured out the illusion with that chant… oh well, I ought to wrap this up. *

Shadow noctowls charged out of the trees.

“Yeek!” Ash ejaculated. * This is getting bad… * “Time to use the more powerful electric cards! Raikou! Zapdos! Thunderbolt!”

The bird and cat respectively began frying the noctowls. Most scattered, but one was very persistent and managed to peck Ash’s forehead so he began bleeding. Ash growled and his eyes diluted to gold.

< Thunderflash! > He shrieked in telepathy, as a grand explosion knocked out most of the remaining noctowls.

“Well, that was interesting.” Angel commented.

“That’s right. I’ll just make Moline a little bit stronger.”

“Shouldn’t you quit tormenting Ash?”

“I’m training him.” Charlotte replied. “Let’s go.”

“I guess you are… can’t he break the illusion?”

“Unless he realizes that is what it is, it could be very difficult.”

Ash smiled as he approached the dark castle. “Moline! Come out!”

A man with funky pink sunglasses, a pointed brown goatee, and dark maroon robes staggered out, supporting himself on a staff of carved wood. “What do you want? I’m not buying anything.”

“You kidnapped my pika-chan, didn’t you?”

“Oh, you mean that little winged rat? ‘Course I did. Do you know how much money it’ll bring? Don’t worry, I’ll pay you 50/50.”

Ash saw red. Not only was this man admitting he had kidnapped Pika-chan, he was now trying to sell her? Now that was truly outrageous.

“No deal.” Ash said. ‘Give her back.”

“Are you nuts, kid? No way!”

“Fine then, you’re making the wrong choice.” Ash said. “Ariados, tie him up with Spider Web!”

Well, let’s say that Moline was now in a very sticky situation. Ash stalked into the castle, searching for Pika-chan.

“Halt!” A black Rhyhorn shouted.

“I don’t have time for this.” Ash spat. “Blastoise, Hydro Pump!”

Well, Rhyhorn gone, three Rhydon guards also gone, what else lies ahead?

Ash next found himself stopped by a new water type.

“Excellent.” Ash said. “Raichu, Thunderbolt.” Interestingly enough, Thunderbolt did not do any damage.

“All right, ground/water type then. Chikorita, you’re up! Razor Leaf!”

The pokemon toppled over.

“Under a new seal of contract, your master commands you, return to your true form, pokemon card!” Ash cried. The card landed on his head.

<Barboach? > Chikorita asked.

“Looks like it.”

Chikorita purred as Ash ruffled its leaves. < I’m going to sleep now, Master Ash. >

< Okay, Chikorita, sleep well. >

< *muffled snoring* >

Ash laughed a little bit. < Cute. >

Ash continued deeper on into the castle. His robes somehow managed to stay impeccably clean, which was quite bizarre as the castle, if it could be termed that, dripped with mildew.

“Yuck.”

Attack! A voice shrieked, before a swarm of Beedrill converged on him.

“Moltres, Fire Blast!” Ash said, now feeling quite pissed off. Where in the world was Pika-chan?

“Maybe I should use detect again… Magic to cards, cards to key!” Ash said, as the familiar white light appeared out of the staff and into a room.

Ash burst in to find Pika-chan sleeping in a glass jar.

“Pika-chan!”

The slumbering pokemon yawned and mumbled something, before turning around and falling asleep again.

Ash sweatdropped.

“Might as well break the jar… Scizor, you’re up. Metal claw.” Well, the jar certainly shattered under that impact.

Pika-chan was rudely awakened from a dream of clotted cream and peaches. “Why’d you wake me up?”

“Pika-chan, you didn’t even notice you were kidnapped?”

“Sorry.” Pika-chan said unrepentantly. “Now what?”

“Baka, we try to find a way home.” Ash said. He activated Mewtwo’s teleport, but nothing happened.

“I think there’s something wrong.” Pika-chan stated.

Ash profusely dropped sweat some more. “Yes… oh! It could be an illusion.” Ash grinned as he drew out his Sparkle card.

“Sparkle, I choose you! Use Static Illusion!”
Sparkle’s attack broke the illusion in tiny pieces, and Ash found himself and Pika-chan lying on a pile of grass, while Charlotte looked on in amusement.

“Took you guys long enough.”

“That was smart.” Ash said. “Wasn’t the first thing that I would have thought of, but very creative!”

“Well, I think it served its purpose. Nice robes, by the way.”

“Eh?” Ash looked down and saw that he was still in the dark purple and silver. “What? But it was just an illusion…”

“Except that you were the one that created those robes, not me. So they do really exist.”

“Kakkoii!” Pika-chan proclaimed. “Good style!”

“Um… thank you Pika-chan,” Ash said, not knowing whether it was a compliment or an insult.

“Food’s on!” Vulpix-chan proclaimed, and whatever else might have been said was lost in the excitement of the feast.

The next morning, Ash awakened to find a pokemon on his head.

“Great…”

“Charlotte!”
Charlotte rubbed her eyes and stuck her head out of her sleeping bag. “What is it, Ash?” She yawned.

“Can you identify the pokemon on my head?”

“Um… no.”

“It’s an electric type!” Pika-chan said helpfully.

“Well, great.” Ash said. The pokemon shimmered and became a card before he could say anything else.

“Plusle, how cute!” Ash said. And with that, he quickly got up and began making breakfast for the group, in a pretty good mood.

Silver lights flowed over the figure as she practiced the steps of the Dragon Dance slowly and deliberately.

< If you are so afraid, why do you keep training? >

< For my duty, and for my love. >

< Love? >

< What is it to you? >

< No, just slight surprise, I suppose. >

The figure nodded and continued practicing.

End Episode 180…

So everything has to be done a certain way? I can’t have: in author’s notes if it’s not in my fic? What the ___, I’m so glad I have my own page now…

Created 7/21/03

Completed 3/31/04

Anyways, on a positive note… I shall be sticking a few more shonen-ai championshipping up on my page soon enough. Remember, if you have any questions on un-posted fics here @ ff.net please ask them here or just e-mail me… examples would be ‘Creating my own Destiny’, ‘Chosen’…